Image Trace halftone
Image Trace should recognize halftone and implement as 4 node circles.
Steve Dixon
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Ton commented
2025 trace is less accurate than 2024.
With the default settings 2024 has 4 anchor points to make it look like a circle while 2025 creates blobs with 2 anchor points. -
Also it could be a half tone aware brush that you sweep over a traced area that converts the selected area into perfect dots or even random Mezzotint or stipple effect. I realise that the complexity will make a file bigger, but hey new chips are faster too.
Steve -
Here is another:
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Here is the image
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The image seems to be missing. Perhaps UV’s security system dropped it :( Can you try anew, please? Or upload it someplace else and share a link to it?
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Here is an attached instance where I may use half tone for an effect. After I trace the you can see that the vectors are all over the place. Even if the trace recognised the dots and transformed them into circles in diminishing increments.
Steve -
Could you perhaps share a sample image of the desired output so we can review it?
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Yes Halftone. Say Ive created a poster with a Screen printed look - lets say with a 50lpi screen effect in photoshop and I may want to vectorise the image in Illustrator. I want the trace function to realise halftone and create correct halftone either real editable circles. Another use would be if I created a brush effect for behind a header or logo, I may need to vectorise it as a halftone to prepare it for a client so it is as editable as possible. I wouldn't expect this would work for massive tonal areas because of the complexity but for smaller areas this would make an awesome feature.
I hope that explains it.
Steve -
By 'dot tone' you mean printed color halftone?
